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The Pirate Bay: First Ever Working Redundant Array of Inexpensive Clouds?

Posted by Dave Asprey in Ambient Cloud, DataCenter, public cloud Nov 27th, 2012 | No Comments It’s really interesting to see that the Pirate Bay just found a new reason to get rid of its physical servers in exchange for moving to the cloud. Sure, lots of companies have made the move from physical servers to virtual servers to cloud, but it’s ironic that The Pirate Bay is inadvertently leading the charge towards more resilient cloud computing. The new architecture of The Pirate Bay is a highly variable cloud environment that looks more like an ambient cloud, or at least a distributed cloud, than a centralized cloud. The history of the cloud has taught us that things on the fringe...

Ambient Cloud: Two approaches to securing the cloud

Posted by Dave Asprey in Ambient Cloud, Cloud, Securing the Cloud Sep 18th, 2012 | No Comments Previous post: Ambient Cloud: Who is responsible for securing the cloud? We have mentioned that the enterprise is responsible for securing their own cloud and can give access to providers to assist in securing their cloud. (For an additional premium, of course.) But how should you approach security? There might be problems. 1.    Extend your perimeter to the Cloud Contrary what many are saying, the perimeter-based security model is not dead at all. When dealing with the cloud, enterprises still have the notion of a perimeter. The choice for firms is whether they extend that perimeter into the...

Who is responsible for security in the Ambient Cloud?

Posted by Dave Asprey in Ambient Cloud, Cloud, Securing the Cloud Aug 15th, 2012 | No Comments Previous:  Ambient Cloud: What does it mean? We know that the Ambient Cloud is a set of network connected devices that IT departments must manage. But, who is responsible for securing the Ambient Cloud? If you are looking for help from your cloud provider, you might be disappointed. The fact is that you, the enterprise, are responsible for securing your cloud because you are responsible for what happens when cybercriminals breach your security. The good news is that now it’s safe to outsource specific security tasks to your cloud provider, as long as the roles and responsibilities are well defined...

The Ambient Cloud: What does it mean?

Posted by Dave Asprey in Ambient Cloud, Cloud Aug 8th, 2012 | No Comments Cloud computing has meant managing servers or virtual machines or software as a service in a data center somewhere. IT executives have come to understand that provisioning on-demand IT software and infrastructure services via the internet provides huge benefits in efficiencies, cost savings and scalability. The rise of mobile devices more powerful than pcs from a few generations ago, combined with consumerization and the rise of a decentralized workforce has created what we now know as the Ambient Cloud. Ambient Cloud is the set of network connected devices an IT department must manage. Compared...

Four Things That Won’t Bring the Internet Down and Why

Posted by Dave Asprey in Ambient Cloud Jul 11th, 2012 | 2 Comments New York Times best-selling author David Eagleman just wrote an awesome piece for CNN called Four Ways the Internet could go down. It is uniquely doomsday-dark, concluding with the idea that we need to build something like a stone monolith with instructions about how to make electricity, computers, and routers. (maybe with Vyatta‘s open source network software code chisled on it?) Here is a thoughtful reply to the CNN article. The gist of it is that risks are real, but they won’t take the Internet down because the Internet already knows how to “route around” them using tools...

The Link Between Browser Share, Cloud Computing, and Security

Posted by Dave Asprey in Ambient Cloud, Cloud Jan 4th, 2012 | Comments Off Some interesting ambient cloud news came out on January 1. Internet Explorer is continuing its decline and Google Chrome is benefiting. (And my old, formerly trusted Firefox is declining too – maybe I’ll switch back if they ever fix that memory fragmentation problem…) At 1st blush, it’s hard to see how this has much to do with cloud computing except for the fact that browsers are used to access SaaS applications. But when you look at it from the perspective of the ambient cloud, browsers are themselves a cloud. Think about it: what if you had an application running on tens...